Chapter 39 Smoke and Silence

(Dual POV: Zuri & Amani)

ZURI

The fire takes hours to die.

By the time it does, the world feels like ash—thick in my throat, in my hair, in the hollow between my ribs. The smoke curls over the ridge like a living thing, refusing to leave. The air hums with the ghosts of everything we just burned....

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